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I have a method that alters an "Account" object based on the action delegate passed into it: public static void AlterAccount(string AccountID, Action<Account> AccountAction) { Account someAccount = accountRepository.GetAccount(AccountID); AccountAction.Invoke(someAccount); someAccount.Save(); } This works as intended... AlterAccount("Account1234", a => a.Enabled = false); ...but now what I'd like to try and do is have a method like this: public static void AlterAccount(string AccountID, string AccountActionText) { Account someAccount = accountRepository.GetAccount(AccountID); Action<Account> AccountAction = MagicLibrary.ConvertMagically<Action<Account>>(AccountActionText); AccountAction.Invoke(someAccount); someAccount.Save(); } It can then be used like: AlterAccount("Account1234", "a => a.Enabled = false"); to disable account "Account1234". I've had a look at the linq dynamic query library , which seems to do more or less what I want but for Func type delegates, and my knowledge of Expression trees etc isn't quite good enough to work out how to achieve what I want. Is there an easy way to do what I want, or do I need to learn expressions properly and write a load of code? (The reason I want to do this is to allow an easy way of bulk updating account objects from a powershell script where the user can specify a lambda expression to perform the changes.)

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